06-21-2021, 05:59 AM
Does anyone want a rushed trial of him that implodes? Such would establish the innocence that he claims that he has. He would get to play the 'near-miss-martyr card'... the one that says "those mean loser (his favorite word for anyone who gets in his way even temporarily) liberal prosecutors who don't want to Make America Great Again. He would come out of it a hero to his cult who would be strengthened in fervency and intolerance of any defeat.
Donald Trump has spent his entire adult life, and probably much of his childhood, in a solipsistic fog in which he can be the arbiter of truth in accordance with his will. This is a dangerous attitude in a political or commercial leader who can see himse3lf as the Indispensable Star. This is how Saddam Hussein thought that he could be the Napoleon of the Arab World. This is the late Kenneth Lay who established a perverse corporate culture at Enrob -- excuse me, Enron Corporation. This is how Bill Cosby could pose as an upstanding citizen while one of the most prolific serial rapists ever,
The danger of solipsism is that it invariably implodes. The question is when it will implode, and it will implode badly with military defeat, commercial implosion. People like them (Saddam, Trump, Lay, Cosby) have a veritable army of people shielding them from monstrous deeds, buttering up their undeserved self esteem, and lying on their behalf. See also a huge number of televangelists, a category particularly unsuited for trust.
Donald Trump has spent his entire adult life, and probably much of his childhood, in a solipsistic fog in which he can be the arbiter of truth in accordance with his will. This is a dangerous attitude in a political or commercial leader who can see himse3lf as the Indispensable Star. This is how Saddam Hussein thought that he could be the Napoleon of the Arab World. This is the late Kenneth Lay who established a perverse corporate culture at Enrob -- excuse me, Enron Corporation. This is how Bill Cosby could pose as an upstanding citizen while one of the most prolific serial rapists ever,
The danger of solipsism is that it invariably implodes. The question is when it will implode, and it will implode badly with military defeat, commercial implosion. People like them (Saddam, Trump, Lay, Cosby) have a veritable army of people shielding them from monstrous deeds, buttering up their undeserved self esteem, and lying on their behalf. See also a huge number of televangelists, a category particularly unsuited for trust.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.